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work. If you should know of a place 

 where there is a particularly fine growth 

 of grass, it would be a paying proposi- 

 tion to buy sufficient sods from it to 

 answer your needs. Sods, cut and deliv- 

 ered, will cost about eight cents per square 

 foot. This price may be shaded some- 

 what if the sods are bought in bulk and 

 the cutting and carting is done by your- 

 self. Under any circumstances the work 

 will be expensive. 



On banks and terraces it is preferable 

 to use sods rather than seeding. The sods 

 can be held in place with wooden pegs 

 driven through them seven or eight inches 

 into the bank. Over this work scatter 

 some seed and give a light dressing of 

 loam; then pound the whole to an even 

 surface. 



When the bank is too steep to hold the 

 sods pegged in this way, they should be 



